Back in the Election, I went for Obama for many reasons.
Here are two larger ones that don't require much explaining; Republican Oversimplification, and McCain's plan for the poor.
Republican oversimplification:
One of my reasons against McCain, was his, and his party's faked views.
They said that people bought houses they couldn't afford, this is why the economy fell.
But people bought houses they could afford, the answer is right in your cars.
It wasn't the mortgage companies that started it, it wasn't the insurance companies, no. It was the Oil Corporations, including Halliburton, manned by -- shock shock -- Dick Cheney, and Exxon Mobil, who's big affiliate and starter was -- shock triple -- George W. Bush.
What happened was, the Oil Corporations used the Iraq War, started pointlessly by -- you know it -- a Bush with a Dick, as an excuse to raise their prices dramatically.
Then, when people had bought houses they could afford -- Hey, they can't afford them anymore. They're gas prices have gone up, they can't afford to heat their homes, they can't afford electricitiy, which are critical to this lifestyle.
They had to choose what to cut back on. They need heat and electricity, they need water (Utilities are often merged), maybe they can cut back on the rent.
What happened?
Everything went downhill.
Hold on folks, that's not all!
2008, the infamous Wall street bailout, while necessary at the time, showed the true and obvious instincts of the CEOs, they're need for greed.
It is the nature of any business, from Halliburton to Dow Industries to your local feed store to the profit-style P.E.T.A types, to be a greedy animal.
So are it's CEOs. Remember how just recently, AIG granted themselves a shitload of bonuses?
This leads to my second point:
McCain wanted to let the wealth drip bottom down, giving it to the large corporations. This actually would have worked, if the money would go to a good-instincted person, not a greedy animal.
You can give a large loaf of bread to some birds, and they will spread it around.
If you give a large steak to a pack of starving lions, the lion who gets ain't gonna share it with other lions, not her young, and definitely not any of the smaller cats nearby. They'll all fight over it like a pack of greedy animals, because like any business, it is their nature to be a greedy animal. It is required to survive.
So, the top-down method would work, if Companies were friendly thoughtful birds.
But they aren't, they're more like the starving, greedy lion.
Those are just two issues you can read without having your eyes burn out. I could list everything from $5000 healthcare to WTF Taxes to The Draft, but then people would scroll down off of this like an ad.
Originally Posted by savrino...
